Interest also is rising in direct potable reuse, which involves piping treated effluent directly into the drinking water distribution system, say industry firms active in the water sector. One of the ...

In communities all around the world, water supplies are coming under increasing pressure as population growth, climate change, pollution, and changes in land use affect water quantity and quality. To ...

California is set to adopt regulations that will allow for sewage to be extensively treated, transformed into pure drinking water and delivered directly to people’s taps. The regulations are expected ...

In theory, the idea of one, continuous water cycle is easy to understand. But somehow, the idea that our wastewater could one day wind up in our drinking glasses can be a bit harder to accept — even ...

Congress has allocated billions of dollars to address contamination caused by the ubiquitous class of “forever” chemicals known as PFAS—with billions more also earmarked in recent legal settlements ...